CADWELL PARK SEASON KICKS OFF WITH OVER 300 BIKE RACERS IN ACTION
20 March 2006 - MotorSport Vision

Competitors eager to get back to racing at circuit’s first 2006 meeting

This weekend (March 25/26), over 300 competitors will make their way to Cadwell Park, near Louth, for the circuit’s first race meeting of the 2006 season. From March until November, on two, three and four wheels there will be a wide range of action with everything from karts to Superbikes.

The August rounds of the British Superbike Championship, when Cadwell traditionally pulls the biggest crowd of the entire Superbike season, should be the biggest meeting of the year thanks to the circuit’s status as a favourite among bikers. There are also highlights on four wheels however, such as the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s Shuttleworth & Nuffield Trophies meeting in May and the circuit’s first ever Grand Prix – for karts, rather than Formula 1 – in July.

This weekend though, the New Era club bike championships start off the season with a schedule of racing which includes bikes and Superkarts, with several competitors from across the region.

Lee Sanderson, from Bottesford, Scunthorpe, is one such racer. Sanderson raced in Formula 600 as a novice last year and got several wins and second places in his first season of racing. After finishing third in the points, he’s now moving up to Pro-Bikes and has high hopes for 2006 with a bike which he believes should be better than the machine he raced in F600s. Aiming to have a “good crack at the championship,” Sanderson’s goal will be to win on a track which he describes as “awesome to ride,” and where he won last year.

In the Formula 400s, Tom Warner, from Nettleham near Lincoln and Richie Welsh, from Hull, will be going against each other, and it’s Welsh who has the highest hopes. “I’m looking forward to it, and I’m up for the challenge,” he commented ahead of the Cadwell Park meeting before adding, lightheartedly: “There’s some fast riders and I just need a shakedown to blow the cobwebs away, but I’ll be disappointed if I don’t win all four races and get all four fastest laps – that’s how cocky I am!” Welsh has grounds to be confident though – he has won the F400 Superclub title in the past two years and is simply planning to use this as a race test. Warner’s hopes are more modest, as his aims are for top five finishes as he tries to improve on the fourth place he achieved last year. This weekend starts a mammoth season for Warner, who will compete in 46 races in 2006.

With most riders competing in four races, Market Rasen’s Geoff Spencer has given himself an extra challenge by riding a KTM 990 Superduke in the Sound of Thunder race and a Ducati 620 Sport in the Desmo-Due Championship as he competes in six races over the Saturday and Sunday. “I don’t know what the competition’s going to be like in Sound of Thunder,” Spencer commented. “Hopefully I’ll win ‘em all!”

Tickets for the meeting cost £12 per adult per day, with children aged 12 and under admitted

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